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as into the lower foothills, up to perhaps 1,500 feet, but is a rare bird 

 wherever found. It is usually seen in pairs or small flocks, often in 

 company with the species of Cyanerpes or other small arboreal kinds, 

 frequenting the tops of low trees and shrubbery. 



440. Cyanerpes caeruleus caeruleus (Linnaeus). 



Careba carulea Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 119 (Minca). — Sclater, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 33 (Minca). 

 Arbelorhina carulea microrhyncha (not Cccreba cwrulea microrhyncha von Ber- 



lepsch) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 143 (" Santa 



Marta "). 

 Cyanerpes caruleus microrhynchus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII. 



1900, 173 (Bonda, Minca, Onaca, Las Nubes, and Cacagualito). 



Fourteen specimens : Bonda, Agua Dulce, Las Vegas, Don Diego, 

 and Pueblo Viejo. 



Only four adult males are included, which are not distinguishable in 

 any way from a good series from French Guiana, assumed to represent 

 true caruleus (described from Surinam). Reference of the Santa 

 Marta bird to microrhynchus (a pale race described from Bucara- 

 manga, Colombia), is apparently not justified. There are two males, 

 dated January 24 and February 2, in the midst of the first prenuptial 

 moult, and another taken at the latter date in which this moult is just 

 beginning. Adult females apparently have a pale blue mystacal stripe. 



Although the writer has always been on the lookout for this bird, 

 he has never met with it on the west or south slopes of the San Lor- 

 enzo, but only on the northeast slopes and foothills, and along the 

 humid coast belt to the east of Santa Marta. Its range is from sea- 

 level up to 4,000 feet (at Las Vegas), and consequently takes in most 

 of the Tropical Zone in this region. It is usually seen in small flocks — 

 probably family groups, since immature individuals are nearly always 

 present. The birds keep well up in the high trees as a rule, for 

 which reason they are hard to secure, although fairly common. In 

 their manner of climbing about among the branches they much re- 

 semble vireos, but nearly always seem to feed in flower-bearing trees. 



441. Cyanerpes cyaneus (Linnaeus). 



( ?) Ccereba gularis (not Certhia gularis Sparrmann) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., 



XXXVIII, 1854, 258, footnote ("Santa Marta"). 

 Coereba cyanea Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 199 (Manaure) ; 1880, 119 



(Minca). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 32 (Manaure and 



Minca). 



